Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Fwd: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden-4 v0.1.5 released

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> Even if running KDE was a requirement, I'd still stand
> by the fact that we're right.

I probably wouldn't be working on the project, so I guess
you and possibly Rich would be standing by it on your own.

You've ended up right over the other side of the same
argument Rich was making: if the developers don't enjoy
writing it, it won't be written.  This sort of thing is
why the geek opinion does matter, when it comes to free
software: why would I work on an application for a system
I don't want to use?

Quite apart from my suspicion that there's a pretty big
overlap between "potential Rosegarden end-users" and
"geeky people" anyway.  After all, there's a big overlap
between Linux users and geeks, and I bet there is between
people producing music using computers in their homes and
geeks as well.

That said, I do agree with many of your points about the
uniformity of applications, although I think most of them
_are_ about applications and the way they communicate
rather than necessarily the way your basic desktop looks
and feels.  And I think most people use relatively few
applications day-to-day as well, so it's not as hard as
it seems to adjust to irregularities.

Anyway, doesn't anyone have any opinions on my segment
end-marker post?


Chris